All Heatsink Tests Done By Madshrimps In One Place

Cooling/HSFDB by jmke @ 2009-12-07

Over the past years we have tested a few hundred kilos worth of heatsinks; in order to give you quick access to the massive amount of data we have entered all the test results (more than 400) into a database, grouped by test setup. Enjoy!

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AMD S462 (2004) - Open Testbed

AMD S462 (2004) - Open Testbed

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AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1400 MHz


This CPU produces 72Watt at default speeds and voltage, very close to the current top crop of Socket A CPU's. But when pushed to a speed of 1533 MHz with 1.9v vcore it comes close to producing 100Watt! Cooling this down with air-cooling is always a challenge.

Here are the full specifications of our test setup:

JMke's Test Setup
CPU AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1400 @ 1533Mhz - 1.9v
Mainboard Abit KR7A
Cooling Thermalright SLK947-U
Thermalright SP-97
Swiftech MCX462-V
Scythe Kamakaze
Stock AMD heatsink
Evercool MAG-01
Evercool CUF-715CA
Alpha PAL8045
Memory 1 * 256Mb PC3200 Corsair
Video nVidia Geforce DDR


We chose to divide the results up into 2 groups as shown below; the high end heatsink will be tested with the CPU putting out 92Watt of heat, while the budget-friendly heatsinks were tested at the default CPU speed (72Watt).

Performance Results

Select the heatsink you want to compare and hit “select”. Click the name of the heatsink to be taken straight to the original review, with pictures, installation tips and more.





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Comment from piotke @ 2009/01/28
Nicely done, but once you selected one or 2 coolers, and clicked next to see the graph, there is apparently no way to return to the selection menu ? (besides refreshing the page).
Comment from Massman @ 2009/01/28
Your life's work?
Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/28
Quote:
Originally Posted by piotke View Post
Nicely done, but once you selected one or 2 coolers, and clicked next to see the graph, there is apparently no way to return to the selection menu ? (besides refreshing the page).
good point, will look into it

@Massman: trying to setup similar for fans & cases, than my work is complete
Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
return link added!
Comment from Rutar @ 2009/01/29
excellent work
Comment from geoffrey @ 2009/01/29
if you don't select anything, and choose select, then you get a nothing select error but no link back to the selection screen

Flash btw?
Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
no flash involved, Php image generation; you can directly link to generated charts from Madshrimps.be domain. Today so far 916 charts were generated latest one:

http://www.madshrimps.be/images/rend...26,363,366.png

if you try to directly link from a site outside madshrimps domain you get this image:



Quote:
if you don't select anything, and choose select, then you get a nothing select error but no link back to the selection screen
fixed, thanks for testing
Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
added links to the Heatsink names, they now link to the original review, with pictures, installation tips and more.
Comment from geoffrey @ 2009/01/29
you're brilliant
Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
coolest would be now if you mouse-over the name, you see a small thumbnail of the heatsink? would that be useful ?
Comment from jmke @ 2009/02/01
latest chart generated can now be found: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=stats
will need a better place for it though

 

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